What's the best 35mm slide scanning service?

2 Responses to “What's the best 35mm slide scanning service?”

1. photoguy_ryan says:

   April 2, 2010 at 4:18 pm

   Check your local camera/photoshop. They will be able to do it for you, and you dont have to ship a bunch of slides around.

   You will need the files on some media. Why not DVD?? It will make viewing easier, if you travel around with them and share with family. You can still print form DVD also.
2. Dr. Sam says:

   April 2, 2010 at 4:18 pm

   I have not used either place but here are two that I’ve read about…

   Here’s a place that says they will do it for 35¢ a slide scanned to 2,000 dpi, which is decent. The price goes up to 45¢ for 3,000 dpi and 65¢ for 4,000 dpi. They have a $100 minumum order, though, so if you have "only" 150 slides, you may as well go for the highest resolution. When you get your images back, the higher the resolution, the easier they are going to be to work on.

   http://www.myspecialphotos.com/scanning.asp

   There was an article in PopPhoto about someone who outsourced to India for an even lower price. The service is called ScanCafe. You can read their impression here: http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4844/the-24-cent-scan.html
   or go to the website directly: http://www.scancafe.com/

   They also have some guidelines for do-it-yourself scanning if you are glutton for punishment: http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4286/get-your-old-slides-and-negatives-onto-a-scanner.html

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